Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Revue Music for ...

In 1914, the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was shot in the elbow and his right arm amputated. Wittgenstein resolved to continue his career as a performer and asked some of the most famous ...

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G was always intended to be a frivolous work. In contrast to many of the concertos of his day, what Ravel was aiming to write was something light, fanciful and not inherently ...

Having recorded all of Ravel’s solo piano music, it was natural for Alexandre Tharaud to turn his attention to the two piano concertos. The performances are all that you would expect from this ...

Concerto for Piano (Left-Hand) and Orchestra OSE Symphonic Orchestra Daniel Kawka, Conductor Maurice Ravel, Composer Vincent Larderet, Piano Ombres Vincent Larderet, Piano Daniel Kawka, Conductor OSE ...

Though Boulez and Aimard both have reputations for efficient, no-nonsense approaches, their performances of both the Ravel concertos (reviewed above) are consistently slower than Jean-Efflam ...

'The only love affair I have ever had was with music.' ~ Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was born in the Pays Basque and moved to Paris with his parents as a child. He wrote this piano ...

The unfailingly stylish Alexandre Tharaud completes his odyssey into the French composer’s piano music with his two piano concertos, and the additional work, de Falla’s celebrated suite, finds him ...

There are surely few conductors alive who can bring Ravel’s miraculous, deft orchestral colours to life with such lucidity and suppleness as Boulez. His recording of the D major Concerto with Zimerman ...